She worked as a lawyer at Wall Street firm Skadden, Arps and then as a venture capitalist at GE Equity in Hong Kong, leaving in 1999 to run a small responsible-investment private equity fund, Maven International, in the city.

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It is especially useful in private equity because a partner's original investment in a fund is often made through an offshore trust.

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At the time, so-called secondary funds, investment partnerships set up to purchase existing private equity fund stakes, expected distressed sellers to drive down prices and flood the market.

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